NEW DELHI: After dealing with backlash over her remarks on the Durgapur gang-rape case, West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Sunday stated her feedback had been “distorted” by the media.Additionally Learn – ‘Ladies have to guard themselves’: Mamata’s shocker in MBBS pupil rape case; vows strict motion towards responsible “The media distorted my phrases. You ask me a query, I reply it, and you then distort it. Don’t strive this type of politics,” information company ANI quoted her as saying in Alipurduar, the place she was visiting flood- and landslide-hit areas in north Bengal.Earlier within the day, chatting with reporters at Kolkata airport earlier than departing for north Bengal, Banerjee had remarked that “ladies ought to keep away from going out late at evening.”“The lady was finding out in a non-public medical school. How she got here out at evening at 12:30? Up to now I do know, it (the incident) occurred in a forest space. Investigation is on. I am shocked to see the incident, however non-public medical schools must also maintain their college students. Particularly, the women shouldn’t be allowed to come back outdoors at night-time. They (feminine college students) have to guard themselves additionally,” she advised reporters.Additionally Learn – Bengal ‘gang rape’ horror: BJP leaders stopped from assembly sufferer; spar with copsThe remarks sparked a livid backlash, with the opposition BJP, specifically, focusing on the chief minister.BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla focused the Congress over its silence on the difficulty, saying, “Will the outrage foyer who was shouting yesterday — Supriya Shrinate, Priyanka Vadra, Rahul Gandhi, and so on. —open their mouths now?”Poonawalla was referring to the controversy over the exclusion of feminine journalists from Friday’s press convention of visiting Afghan international minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.One other BJP spokesperson, Gaurav Bhatia, accused Banerjee of indulging in “victim-blaming.” “Shameless @MamataOfficial, a blot on womanhood, much more for being a CM. After RG Kar and Sandeshkhali, now this horrific case of rape and as an alternative of justice, she blames the sufferer,” Bhatia wrote on social media, referring to 2 latest high-profile circumstances of crimes towards ladies in West Bengal. He additionally demanded that Banerjee “resign” and “be held accountable below the legislation.”